Wife's making me quit [Archive]

brokenspirit

11-03-2011, 12:01 AM

Well tonight was the straw that broke the camels back.

I'm pretty much a new player to EQ having only played a bit back in 2004. I was bored about a month ago and tried EQ2 which I found stupid. I found p1999 and jumped in.

I went with a Halfling druid because I wanted to eventually be able to travel around easy. the first couple of weeks in Misty Thicket were interesting and I didn't have to much trouble reaching level 9. I went to EC at level 9 and have spent about a week trying to hit level 10, and now I've spent this last week trying to hit level 11.

As I continued to play I continued to die more frequently. These deaths were followed by a cursing spree because they represented about an hour of time lost.

I died 3 times tonight in EC on surprise griffin attack from behind, and the other two times were against blues. Both times my roots failed and I was unable to reroot or get away. The Blues were hitting for max damage almost every time.

I'v tried grouping but after hours of killing orcs I seem to gain very little XP. and its not easy to get in a group.

My wife was worried about my mental health and wanted me to quit. I think she's right.

I love what you guys have built here and classic everquest is alot of fun. I just don't have to nerve for it.

Knuckle

11-03-2011, 12:03 AM

nice name :o

Naerron

11-03-2011, 12:44 AM

is it bad this made me laugh?

Estu

11-03-2011, 12:51 AM

EQ has a steep learning curve but is easy once you get the hang of it. You can solo from 1 to 60 as a druid and never die if you have the know-how. It's not for everyone, though.

Hailto

11-03-2011, 12:54 AM

is it bad this made me laugh?

Nah, i did too, i think this might be a troll post lol.

mostbitter

11-03-2011, 04:37 AM

it is a shame this guy forgot to finish growing up before he got married and also that his wife rules his life so hard she dictates what games he is playing

Pyronost

11-03-2011, 05:01 AM

it is a shame this guy forgot to finish growing up before he got married and also that his wife rules his life so hard she dictates what games he is playing

Confirmed single/never married.

Truu

11-03-2011, 05:05 AM

This game is actually hard, whole reason I just spent 8 hours getting torrent and setting this stuff up...love it

mostbitter

11-03-2011, 05:07 AM

Confirmed single/never married.

coming from a gm on a custom eq server i guess i can live with that assumption

Pyronost

11-03-2011, 05:09 AM

coming from a gm on a custom eq server i guess i can live with that assumption

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/sloshedzeus/disgusting-face-of-disgust.jpg

Dis is my wife. Come at me bro.

(Ex-GM though if you must know :p Retired months ago.)

Autotune

11-03-2011, 05:10 AM

This game is actually hard, whole reason I just spent 8 hours renting Tor's and setting this stuff up...love it

You should know that p99 does not condone the renting of Tor's. Therefore you should edit your post to indicate that you purchased your copy of Everquest like everyone else on Project 1999.

mostbitter

11-03-2011, 05:15 AM

Slave

11-03-2011, 08:44 AM

You should know that p99 does not condone the renting of Tor's. Therefore you should edit your post to indicate that you purchased your copy of Everquest like everyone else on Project 1999.

Hey I spent 3 years of my life and hundreds of dollars if not $1000 or more on Live Everquest only to have them M:TG the whole thing with for-profit expansions. If that doesn't entitle me I don't know what does.

Fultun

11-03-2011, 09:09 AM

I can feel your pain, 10 and 11 took me forever and a lot of patience as a druid with just looted trash for armor and weapon.

If you take your time, learn the pathing of mobs to avoid finding yourself in the path of a deadly mob, and spend some time killing skele's and black bears for bone chips and skins, and you will be able to upgrade your weapon quickly.

Once you upgrade from the basic weapon you'll find killing those blues becomes easier. I did exactly as you have, although I left Qeynos at lvl 3 and ran to EC where I leveled. I found a nice niche in the zone and worked it over and over, medding and healing between battles and only died when I got risky or broke my cycle.

Be sure to visit the tunnel regularly for SoW (a life saver when things go bad) and a buff or 2. Everyone there is friendly and willing to help out, you just have to ask.

I'm only lvl 16 druid (My main) but I also had the experience of 5-6 years on Live, so I knew the ropes, but stick with it, it is a lot of fun.

Nyrod

11-03-2011, 09:22 AM

i r dissapoint

i opened thread thinking it would be interesting about some drama because he is whoring his life away to EQ and wife is ready to divorce him like my wife, although im not totally whoring out my life to EQ, she just hates games in general

guess i did still laugh at his story lol

dcapotos

11-03-2011, 09:28 AM

Helpful tip, when running away jump to gain a little distance and use the strafe + forward key to move a little bit faster which should help you get away from average runspeed NPCs. You are a halfling, HIDE HIDE HIDE. If you are going away or medding, target a hostile npc and keep hitting hide until it cons indif. Once you get SOW, if you die, it's generally your own stupidity or lag.

gnomishfirework

11-03-2011, 09:42 AM

dude. it isn't eq. its something else in your life causing the stress. take a break. figure that out. then come back. if you feel frustrated, step away.

get your wife to play.

Most important of all, and this will make it so you cna actualyl start playing again immediately, with your wife.

smoke some weed. seriously. get baked and try giving a fuck you died. it sucks ,but you won't go into an expletive laced rant.

i die, and im like "whatever." I don't care.

knottyb0y

11-03-2011, 09:53 AM

This game is hard, I'd say that's a large portion of my attraction with it.

Dieing sucks, Losing EXP sucks, but it makes the achievement of leveling better.

Don't take the game so hard. If you die and and up raging take a break. A lost hour of grinding sucks unless you were having fun then it sucks less. Try to do things that are fun and get your experience rather than grind from level to level.

Just remember Classic Everquest is Hard. Like much harder than most other games I played. You get penalized for dieing, but it's still just a game so don't trip.

dcapotos

11-03-2011, 09:57 AM

The appeal of this game is the emotional involvement it brings. Few games these days ever invoke the level of fear, joy, or accomplishment this game accomplishes.

Everquest really is a life lesson if you try to learn from it and grow as a person. Sometimes you just have to learn to pick yourself up from dead bottom and start all over again.

Snaggles

11-03-2011, 09:59 AM

If you're frustrated about the hr (more like 10 mins) it takes a Druid to solo back death exp it's prob good that you quit. The time to do things increases as do the stakes.

It takes years of lonely Friday nights and a ton of pizza to figure this game out. Then again, that Dervish Thug will haunt your dreams for eternity.

On second thought get a sow in the EC tunnel until you can cast it. Use harmony and snare. The game is easy mode that way.

Nirgon

11-03-2011, 11:16 AM

There is such a thing as the "mad to bad ratio", commonly known as "mad cuz bad".

Mcbard

11-03-2011, 11:19 AM

Your wife is a proper lady, and a scholar.

Kabilos

11-03-2011, 11:21 AM

His wife isn't controlling him, shes just saying that maybe he shouldn't play this game if it gets him all pissed off and starts a swear storm in front of his computer.

He's the one who is saying "yes dear your right" and taking it up the ... at night.

pickled_heretic

11-03-2011, 11:35 AM

He's the one who is saying "yes dear your right" and taking it up the ... at night.

what happens between man and woman (and a st. bernard and a copious amount of vinyl/lube) behind closed doors in the bedroom is their business and nobody else's.

Diggles

11-03-2011, 11:36 AM

unless they make a sex tape

Bazia

11-03-2011, 11:55 AM

If DRU is giving you a hard time either look up some guides or quit EQ.

Druid is one of if not the easiest class to start off with in this game.

pickled_heretic

11-03-2011, 11:58 AM

If DRU is giving you a hard time either look up some guides or quit EQ.

Druid is one of if not the easiest class to start off with in this game.

that's kind of what i thought when i read the OP. i guess he doesn't have sow yet though which might be rough. still, they are obnoxiously good in outdoor zones.

brokenspirit

11-03-2011, 12:10 PM

LOL, you guys making me laugh. This is a true story and my druid was named Bildge. My wife didn't make me quit, as my post said, though she threatened to delete the game. Wife doesn't have time for EQ she's got a farm to tend to.

Yes I suck at EQ there is no doubt about it, and yes I was building a deep emotional attachment to the game and especially the frustration of almost making a level. I only had one bubble to fill into get to 11 then I died three times and had about three to fill in.

I went to the tunnel and asked for SoW and was usually ignored, I'm not going to be a dick and spam over and over again. I saved up money and bought the cheapest weapon I found someone selling, a jaggedpine crook, it was worse then the warhammer I'd been using but at least it would hit wisps.

The game was turning into me casting root and nuking a blue mob to death unless the root broke then trying to reroot if I was lucky. I then had to sit for a few minutes and watch my blue bar fill up again so I could do it all again. I was thinking to myself. I'd gladly give someone a dollar for a clarity so I wouldn't have to sit here.

Like I said, awesome game and I was really getting into it. In fact I was waking up at 5AM so I could play an hour before work. Then trying to play every hour I could spare in the evening. Thought I'd better quit before I was addicted.

Malrubius

11-03-2011, 12:11 PM

Don't play so damn much.

I play a few hours a week, max. Awesome fun and nostalgic as hell.

EDIT - but yeah, if you are truly addicted (as in you practically CAN'T not play), then quitting is probably your best option.

Samoht

11-03-2011, 12:12 PM

The game was turning into me casting root and nuking a blue mob to death unless the root broke then trying to reroot if I was lucky. I then had to sit for a few minutes and watch my blue bar fill up again so I could do it all again. I was thinking to myself. I'd gladly give someone a dollar for a clarity so I wouldn't have to sit here.

Group. This is not a solo-centric game. There are a few exceptions, but they do not apply to a level 10 druid.

pickled_heretic

11-03-2011, 12:30 PM

Like I said, awesome game and I was really getting into it. In fact I was waking up at 5AM so I could play an hour before work. Then trying to play every hour I could spare in the evening. Thought I'd better quit before I was addicted.

dude come on. you're almost to lvl 14, then you can sow yourself. listen, i'll powerlevel you a bit to get lvl 14 if you need some help.

dcapotos

11-03-2011, 12:35 PM

Group. This is not a solo-centric game. There are a few exceptions, but they do not apply to a level 10 druid.

This, otherwise prepare to sit on your ass for a long time, well you will still do that in a group but at least the xp/loot is consistent and there's someone to chat with. If you insist on soloing, nothing wrong with that, med+hide and go watch some youtube or read a book between kills.

Rasah

11-03-2011, 12:42 PM

The game was turning into me casting root and nuking a blue mob to death unless the root broke then trying to reroot if I was lucky. I then had to sit for a few minutes and watch my blue bar fill up again so I could do it all again. I was thinking to myself. I'd gladly give someone a dollar for a clarity so I wouldn't have to sit here.
Cast shield of thistles and thistlecoat on yourself and smack them. They'll die beating on you. Nuke if your health goes down too fast. Then when the battle is over, cast treeform and just sit there as you regen HP and Mana. EZ mode.

Charball

11-03-2011, 01:12 PM

Wife doesn't have time for EQ she's got a farm to tend to.

Lol this guy sits at home playing EQ while his wife does...farm work!? No wonder she wants you to quit. Also its probably a good idea that you do quit if you got mad enough to make a ragepost about quitting. Get out there and plow a field.

Snaggles

11-03-2011, 01:23 PM

I think just by changing your method the game would be much more fun.

Pull things near a zone wall or to a place where the risk is minimal. If you are going to blast then use snare, if you want to root/rot use a damage over time without an initial damage component. If it doesn't hit for ____ dmg the moment it lands it won't roll an additional root-break check. If you root/rot be sure to stay at max distance but really this won't be a game style until you get Stinging Swarm.

Honestly I didn't know that for years. It would have made my own first toon (a halfling druid) much more fun. I thought root was basically a randomly evil rabid dog.

Life does get awesome with sow though. When you can outrun almost everything dying happens less frequently.

dcapotos

11-03-2011, 01:27 PM

Get out there and plow your wife.
fixed

ironically it may be an answer to your problems.

Muaar

11-03-2011, 01:32 PM

solution: draw up a statsheet for your irl character. you will be a level 1 farmer. every 10 hours you spend farming you get +1 cultivation and +.2str

after you have done a weeks worth of farm work you get to play eq on saturday. sunday back to work, that cultivation skill wont raise itself.

returnofahipster

11-03-2011, 01:57 PM

Slave

11-03-2011, 01:59 PM

Geez guys I'm pretty sure he's talking about Farmville.

Eldaran

11-03-2011, 02:01 PM

Geez guys I'm pretty sure he's talking about Farmville.

this

yraapt

11-03-2011, 03:46 PM

Compared to modern MMOs I'm pretty sure EQ has the most severe penalty for mistakes. It is also probably one of the slowest leveling games. If either of those things do not sound appealing I'm not sure P99 is for you. Personally I find EQ relaxing.

BTW if you want to solo, but root/rot bores you try a necro or mage. Probably my favorite thing about EQ is that there are so many different ways play.

Atmas

11-03-2011, 05:19 PM

Geez guys I'm pretty sure he's talking about Farmville.

That was my impression as well.

brokenspirit

11-03-2011, 05:57 PM

Cast shield of thistles and thistlecoat on yourself and smack them. They'll die beating on you. Nuke if your health goes down too fast. Then when the battle is over, cast treeform and just sit there as you regen HP and Mana. EZ mode.

I have alternated between root nuking and shield of thistles. When everything works I've killed yellows. Seems like last night my first nuke would break the root and then they would be on me and health would disapear really fast.

The shield of thistles method was working well at level 9 but it seems like I'm actually being missed too much at level 10 for it to work, but when they do hit its max damage. THe shield wares off before the mob dies.

The fact was just a real bad night of luck and I was getting stressed out for it. Sorry for the drama and complaining.

bluejam

11-03-2011, 06:19 PM

Divorce.

Savok

11-03-2011, 10:22 PM

I have alternated between root nuking and shield of thistles. When everything works I've killed yellows. Seems like last night my first nuke would break the root and then they would be on me and health would disapear really fast.

The shield of thistles method was working well at level 9 but it seems like I'm actually being missed too much at level 10 for it to work, but when they do hit its max damage. THe shield wares off before the mob dies.

The fact was just a real bad night of luck and I was getting stressed out for it. Sorry for the drama and complaining.

Either root/dot or snare/DD. Direct damage spells are more likely to break your roots.

Grab a SoW and clarity first though.

Lulz Sect

11-03-2011, 10:41 PM

http://i.imgur.com/4xHZS.jpg

Phatso

11-03-2011, 11:08 PM

you'll be back, they always come back

Nyrod

11-04-2011, 12:34 AM

Geez guys I'm pretty sure he's talking about Farmville.

LMFAO!!!!!!!!

im so out of the loop of farmville and actually have a couple friends that are RL farmers (plus i grew up in KS lol) so i was thinking the same thing as this

Lol this guy sits at home playing EQ while his wife does...farm work!? No wonder she wants you to quit. Also its probably a good idea that you do quit if you got mad enough to make a ragepost about quitting. Get out there and plow a field.

Sponge

11-04-2011, 01:07 AM

if you are getting so worked up about some game pixels, time to quit all games, cause and effect.

i also think that the title "wife's making me quit" should be changed to "i can't handle being shitty, so my wife's making me man up and do what needs to be done"

Tarathiel

11-04-2011, 03:17 AM

http://i.imgur.com/4xHZS.jpg

omfg this shit is hilarious

hexric

11-04-2011, 03:52 AM

I think next time u should tell your wife not to interupt you while ur playing and on a corpse run and then punch her in the stomach!.. teach her to tell you what to do

Slave

11-04-2011, 08:53 AM

Clearly you simply need to improve your wife faction. Did you try Illusion: Mailman?

ilyaz

11-07-2011, 05:05 PM

I can relate to what this guy is saying. I was fighting this dark blue with my shaman and it was resisting my root/dots 7 spells in a row and killed me. I hit /q and did not log back in for 3 days. It happens I guess.

Nyrod

07-10-2013, 04:20 AM

you'll be back, they always come back

lets hope this is the last time i come back, FML

webrunner5

07-10-2013, 04:59 AM

Try grouping till you get level 14. Druid sucks till then. But if you think that is bad try playing a Shaman to level 24. Aye Vey. :eek: It gets eaiser the more you learn and the higher you get. 50 to 60 gets interesting.

Tysidious

07-10-2013, 07:32 AM

Post is 2 years old, I highly doubt the original author is reading this =)

Reapin

07-10-2013, 07:45 AM

Try the red server. The mobs there seem to be weaker. I started a HFL Rogue just to try it out and I was soloing 3 blues at a time and killing white mobs. As a Rogue that is unheard of. I was just using my starting dagger and tunic. No twinkage.

Furinex

07-10-2013, 07:46 AM

Clearly you simply need to improve your wife faction. Did you try Illusion: Mailman?

Clearly saved this entire thread from catastrophe.

Sollix

07-10-2013, 08:48 AM

I think he came back and leveled. Now he's the racist druid always selling ports in EC

Wotsirb401

07-10-2013, 10:11 AM

Asap

07-10-2013, 10:18 AM

your first mistake was making a druid

his first mistake was getting married, amirite?

Furinex

07-10-2013, 10:40 AM

I think he came back and leveled. Now he's the racist druid always selling ports in EC

Holy shit I was wrong... You sir, clearely saved this thread!

webrunner5

07-10-2013, 05:19 PM

Post is 2 years old, I highly doubt the original author is reading this =)

Oh, we can dream can't we. :rolleyes: Probably wife divorced him and he is Tiggles now. :eek: Doing silly Live Feeds. :o

Aabdel

07-10-2013, 11:30 PM

EQ is tough, at least relative to other mmorpg's. if you play WoW or EQ2 you can easily solo to end game in probably a few weeks if you really obsess over it. I'm told that it's possible in EQ as well for certain classes (though i've never been able to do it), but the game is more about grouping and knowing where to go than just being able to burn through levels with ease. That's why so many of us continue to play this game that lacks the graphics and updated engines of other mmorpgs. If you have yet to hit 11 and your mental health is being called into question, maybe you should stick to a game that won't inspire cursing fits on the reg.

Nordenwatch

07-11-2013, 09:48 AM

Clearly you simply need to improve your wife faction. Did you try Illusion: Mailman?

burst out laughing, fucking hilarious

LordSterben

07-11-2013, 09:49 AM

Even if the OP isn't around, the issue of rage quitting or giving up on EQ is a problem that will never go away. My first MMO was EQ in late 1999 and I played it for years. After many expansions that made the game too clunky for my tastes I played City of Heroes, EQ2, WoW, DCUonline, Aion, PotBS and others and I was able to enjoy all of them (never as much as I enjoyed EQ but what can you expect.) The trick is knowing how the games differ and playing to those differences. You can't solo through EQ to Max level in a couple of weeks like you can with some games...and if you do you're kind of missing the point. If you can't enjoy sitting around chatting, making deals in EC, leveling your trade skill while medding between kills, and spending lots of time traveling and exploring then EQ might not be your game. Most games nowadays are built to feed you levels and achievements at a set pace to keep you feeling good. I can log for hours and not even kill anything and feel good because I just like the nostalgia of being in Norrath.